Officials today confirmed the Cuban-born Vila for the eight-man field.

Bellator’s fifth season kicks off in September.

The tourney winner earns $100,000 in total pay and a guaranteed title shot with current champ Zack Makovsky. Vila joins Eduardo Dantas, Chase Beebe, Marcos Galvao, Luis Nogueira, Ed West and Bellator featherweight champ Joe Warren in the bantamweight-tourney field.

“I feel like I’m the best bantamweight in the world right now,” said the 40-year-old Vila, who’s also competed as a flyweight. “I have everything. I have all the training and all the tools. People don’t even know. Nobody has the stand-up that I have, the wrestling I have, or the strength that I have.”

Eight of Vila’s nine career wins have come via stoppage, his past five via knockout. The onetime Tachi Palace Fights fighter has competed primarily in his current home state of Florida.

“Vila is a wrestling Olympian that knocks his opponents out, and that makes him huge problem for anyone he fights,” Bellator Chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney stated.

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